.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a wide array of one-of-a-kind responsibilities and privileges. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is currently readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning purpose under NASA's Commercial Staff Plan. This will be actually the third launch and also 2nd purpose to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and career. He gained levels from the United States Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he attended the USA Air Force Examination Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Aviation service to the USA Area Force in 2020 after functioning as the Room Force's director of test and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague vividly remembers creating his 1st trip to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to anticipate, as well as it was a little bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was enjoying me and evaluating me," he claimed. "Luckily, even though I wasn't chosen at that point, I obtained an additional odds a handful of years later. It is actually a fairly wonderful place.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the 1st astronaut coming from that team to be assigned to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 yet was actually aborted not long after takeoff. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually made a lot of memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his knowledge operating onsite amid the 2013 authorities cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still concerned work," he described. "I remember being actually onsite and also the center being entirely vacant. Having the ability to use around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm as well as unique." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what several Johnson workers experienced during the course of the global and just how NASA maintains continuous assistance for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating conditions.Hague now expects yet another quest to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently prepare to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to ascend from Release Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also are going to invest regarding six months conducting medical analysis in microgravity and accomplishing a stable of functional tasks prior to returning home.Even more details concerning the mission and team could be found through complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial workers on Facebook. You can additionally comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.